not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened - Episode 3 with Stan and Michael

Welcome to 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!

If you are a person living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you are in the right place!

Join us in the journey ahead, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness and ultimately change lives for the better!

Our deliberations will always be honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we discuss real people, their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

This week, Stan and Michael discuss:

• The importance of sleep in health and illness - more than just a state of reversible unconsciousness…
  - sleep duration and quality
  - sleep and longevity
  - sleep problems (including an unexpected one of 'loadshedding')
  - sleep hygiene - factors that improve our experience of sleep
  - the only things we should be doing in bed… ;-)
• Essential Tools for your journey in diabetes: Reflection
• Diabetes stigma and devices used for diabetes care
• The importance of language in diabetes care

Sweet Life Advocacy Message - "What people with diabetes wish their diabetes care team knew - We should be at the centre of any research that is being done about diabetes…"

• We discuss a listener email questioning why mental health in men living with diabetes seems so stigmatised
• The ‘iceberg model’ of health – the need to look beyond the physical in diabetes care

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